Hello
I am using a summary indexing to get a chart but it doesn't look like its helping much. I need to have a chart of counts of incidents in last 31days and the search I had before was probably not helping much as I did it on time.
It doesn't help much as there will be incidents on different time. Would it help if I summarize it for one day and run at midnight to collect the results of the previous day and just use that?
Any ideas?
To offer an alternative to the right Honourable MarioM 🙂
Just run it after midnight for the previous day, every day.
To create your first set of data just run the backfill script to populate your index with the last X days of data and from then on it will update each night. Usually I run SI searches for the previous day at around 1am just so I'm happy all events have arrived and because its a nice round number 🙂
E.G. Each night run this for the previous day;
sourcetype=xxx earliest=-1d@d latest=-0d@d | dedup record.incidentId|sistats count by record.priority record.groupArea record.assignmentGroup record.groupDepartment record.affectedCI
Backfill with;
./splunk cmd python fill_summary_index.py -app APPNAME -name "SAVEDSEARCHNAME" -et EARLIESTTIMEMODIFIER -lt LATESTTIMEMODIFER -j 2 -owner SEARCHOWNER
It will prompt for user details when run and the timemodifers are the usual splunk ones, to backfill for a month you can use -et -1mon@mon -lt -0d@d
<-- I say one day as your new scheduled search will pick up the current days events when it executes.
The -j flag sets how many concurrent searches it runs, I have put 2 but you can increase this if you have the spec and its not a busy box.
How will it kill the box? this is how you do summary indexing 🙂 If you are talking about the backfill then you don't have to backfill at all, if you did want to you could set it to one search and leave it overnight
I did think of doing this, but it will kill the box with the cpu usage 🙂
what you could try is to use bucket
:
sourcetype=xxx| dedup record.incidentId | bucket _time span=1d |sistats count by _time record.priority record.groupArea record.assignmentGroup record.groupDepartment record.affectedCI